Species of the Genus Phasianus. 131 
and under tail-coverts mottled dark brown and white ; the legs 
light blue. ‘The feathers on the rump are brown at the base, 
green in the middle, the remaining most exposed portion of a 
bright saffron-yellow ; the tail-coverts are also brown at the 
base, the centre portion barred green and white, ending in 
scarlet, these feathers elongating to the extent of 10 inches, as 
their place of insertion approaches that of the true tail prima- 
ries: the first tail primary measures only 29 inches, the plume 
1i inch in depth, of a beautiful white ground, with broad bars 
of green about 3ths of an inch apart, extending in the direction 
of the web, and mottled across from bar to bar; the third and 
fourth primaries are the longest, and measure, as before stated, 
38 inches each; the inner web narrow, and mottled black and 
white; the outer web 12 inch wide, with transverse circular 
dark-green bars about 3ths of an inch apart, on a ground the 
inner portion of which is grayish-white, the outer pn light 
chesnut-brown. 
It may be proper to state, that the splendid appearance these 
specimens now exhibit in this country, is entirely owing to the 
very judicious plan of taking off their extraordinary tail-feathers, 
about two inches from the body of the birds, before consigning - 
them to the coops in which they were conveyed from India. 
One of these beautiful Pheasants forms part of my own private 
collection. | 
EXPLANATION OF TAB. Xv. 
Phasianus eer one-fourth oF the natural : size. 
